Chapter 196 The fruit is not eaten, the gentleman gets the public opinion, and the villain strips the house (ask for the whole book)

"The Thirteenth Year of Cheng Gong": "The major events of the country are in the worship and Rong".

Sacrifice: Sacrifice, heaven is sacrifice, earth is sacrifice, and at the same time alludes to internal affairs in ancient times.

Rong: The original meaning is a weapon, Ge is a weapon, and ten is armor, so it refers to military affairs in ancient times.

The Shang Dynasty paid great attention to sacrifice, because the sacrifice represented

After the Zhou Dynasty, Shang continued to insist that "the major affairs of the country are in worship and Rong".

These two things have been very serious matters since ancient times, because they are directly related to national events, so whether it is sacrificial etiquette or military regulations, they must be meticulous.

And the word "rejoicing" is very unserious, obviously incompatible with military and sacrifice, and even has the meaning of defilement.

And once you are not serious in terms of rituals, it is a sign of national destruction.

So when Wang Li heard that Wang Xu was looking for a few Hu people who could sing and dance, he was extremely shocked.

Is this person in front of him Wang Xu?

Could it have been replaced by the mountain elves?

Seeing Wang Li staring at him with strange eyes, Wang Xu chuckled and waved his hand, "Don't think nonsense, go find someone, whether you can win this battle at the lowest cost depends on these people." ”

Wang Li frowned, "What do you mean?" ”

"Soldiers, so go up to the army to plan, then to attack the enemy, then to attack the army, and then to attack the city." Wang Xu took off his helmet and placed it on the table, and then took off something inside, which looked like a taekwondo head guard, made of silk cloth and wrapped in bird feathers and catkins sawdust.

Wang Li picked up this strange protective gear, squinted his eyes and asked, "Are you cold?" ”

"It's not for warmth, it's for shock." Wang Xu explained to him the importance of earthquake prevention.

Although the iron armor and steel helmet have absolute defensiveness, but after all, people are still flesh and blood, and the effect of force is mutual, even if it cannot break the defense, but the power of the attack still exists, and it can prevent external forces, but it is difficult to prevent 'internal injuries', which is the so-called shock absorption.

After all, concussions and visceral shocks can also be fatal.

The armor of the Qin and Han dynasties is mostly made of iron, lacquered wood, hard leather or bronze armor, the so-called armor is to use a rope to connect the armor pieces of various materials in series to make armor, the advantage is that it is easy to move, but the weakness is that the leather rope and hemp rope are easy to be cut, so the defense is definitely not as good as the armor made as a whole.

However, this kind of armor built as a whole cannot be popularized in large quantities due to the limitations of technology and resource costs, and it is unlikely that there will be armor such as plate armor and chain mail.

Because the metallurgy at this time was just in the early stage of iron, even if there was cast iron, it was very brittle, and the requirements for wire drawing technology were also very high.

After Wang Xu directly used the steel filling method to make steel, he naturally got the western water conservancy wire drawing machine, but because the drawing consumes too much steel, a small number of chain mail now appears in the Lone Bamboo Country, mainly based on the overall forging and then splicing into plate armor.

However, due to cost and technical problems, the plate armor of the lonely bamboo country can be described as simple, basically there are two pieces before and after, and two people need to help when wearing it, and it is like an iron bucket after wearing, without any flexibility and mobility at all, so the plate armor knight is basically only used for charging into battle, and cannot fight in close combat, and caution is equivalent to a stake.

Therefore, Wang Xu filled them with a thick layer of cotton armor, which was filled with bird feathers and catkins to absorb shock.

And most of the armor is also Za armor, the shape is made according to the Liangdang armor, and the armor is a steel sheet, which is lighter in weight, but stronger in defense, at least comparable to the strongest iron armor in the Qin State (the stone armor in the tomb of the Qin Emperor).

But this piece on Wang Xu's body is the pinnacle product of Jugu Zhuguo's current armor technology, a complete plate armor, it looks like a real steel man, but there is also a price, this plate armor plus the shockproof cotton armor inside, weighs forty pounds.

So as soon as Wang Xu had the opportunity, he would take off his arm guards and helmet, and every time he took it off, he could feel a chill, because it was too stuffy.

After listening to Wang Xu's explanation, Wang Li knocked on the arm guard, raised his eyebrows and said, "Lend me this armor." ”

"Charge?" Wang Xu shook his head, looking at the peak of the Great Qin armor on his body, the iron armor, "As long as you don't meet a strong man wielding a stone stick in this armor, a strong crossbow within fifty meters can't break the defense, and the weight is lighter, my set is like a product, wearing it, the war horse can't run at all." ”

"It's a pity, our horses are too bad, and I've already killed six horses along the way with my armor." Wang Li also sighed.

"So this battle needs to be strategized even more." Wang Xu drank tea and smiled, "I brought 10,000 sets of cotton armor, you can choose and send them down." ”

"Actually, no, I made them wear three layers of animal skins inside." Wang Li shook his head.

"The shock absorption effect is different, especially for the plate armor breaker army, cotton armor is necessary, otherwise a round of cavalry shooting can shock them to vomit blood." Wang Xu smiled.

"But what do these have to do with the Hu people who can sing and dance?" Wang Li tilted his head and looked puzzled, "I still can't figure it out, how to plot." ”

"Do you want to fight?" Wang Xu asked.

"Think, how can I be a marquis if I don't fight?" Wang Li blinked.

"Touching your conscience." Wang Xu rolled his eyes.

"It's okay, if the generals don't fight, what's the use." Wang Li narrowed his eyes and chuckled.

"Then how many people in Donghuli want to fight?" Wang Xu asked again.

"There should be a lot of people, in Murong Quan's words, the reason why they are desperate is that they take a fancy to the fertile and rich land and stable life of the Central Plains." Wang Li touched his chin and said.

"This is the idea of their nobles, but what about the warriors under their hands?" Wang Xu chuckled and said, "You should have seen along the way, Donghu's desperate gamble is not public opinion. In fact, they didn't get to the point where they had to go west, right? ”

"Didn't we force them to go west?" Wang Li blinked and said with some embarrassment.

"........" Wang Xu was suddenly speechless, stared at Wang Li and sighed, "It seems that along the way, you have really grown a lot." ”

"What you told me before you left to stop the war with war, I thought all the way." Wang Li smiled, "Before the so-called peace comes, we must go through the baptism of war, so war is inevitable, what we have to do is to stop fighting, so I don't think you should be used in this war." ”

"You want to learn from Baiqi?" Wang Xu narrowed his eyes.

"This time it's different from taking the city without blood, there are only women, children and slaves, no men, but the Donghu barbarians are really cannibalistic." Wang Li's tone was low, "The more than 3,000 Donghu men collected by Murong along the way were all survived by eating human flesh, in your words, they are human demons, such barbarism, it is better to be completely annihilated, Wu Anjun killed 400,000 people, in order to let the Qin State live 400,000 more, because the food in the world at that time could no longer support so many people, and this time, it is about the same, let this group of Hu people live, there will be more than 100,000 people starving to death in the Central Plains." ”

Wang Xu's breath stagnated, and his eyes flashed with coldness, "There was a famine in the Central Plains?" ”

"In fact, Shu County was flooded last year, and there was a shortage of food, so Wang Shang insisted that the two armies of Yan and Qi go hand in hand, Meng Yi drove 50,000 households of Zhao people out of the cloud in Zhao Land, and Li Siqian 40,000 households of Chu people into Wu." Wang Li sighed softly.

"Three hundred thousand." Wang Xu's voice trembled slightly.

"After the Battle of Changping, the grain of the whole country was supplied to Shu County, and if Shu County was ripe, the world would be full, and if Shu County was waterlogged, the people would suffer." Wang Li smiled, "The thirteen granaries of the Qin State, Chen Liucang, Boiling Cang, Bashang Cang, Liyang Cang, and Xianyang Cang were completely emptied in the First Battle of Changping, and half of the Jiazi did not ease, and the Xianyang Cang, which was accumulated with 100,000 stones, has been running horses in the warehouse for many years, and is used to hoard wood; Chengdu Cang, Wancang, and Bacang were emptied by my eldest father once, and now Chengdu Cang is merged with Bacang. Langxicang, Huangqi Cang, Beihe Cang, and Dudao Cang were also hollowed out in the two expeditions, and the whole country pointed to Shucang to live. ”

Wang Xu took a deep breath and grinned, "In this way, it seems that these 300,000 people all died because of your Wang family." ”

Wang Li also grinned, "The eldest father fought against Chu and saved millions of households in Guanzhong from the suffering, my father conquered Yan twice, and also exchanged for Zhao Qi's territory of thousands of miles, and the world was unified, why don't you say that our Wang family has fed tens of millions of households in the world?" ”

"Every time the Qin army goes out, there will be natural disasters to accompany it, the Changping drought, the Chu mountain floods, and now the Yanshu waterlogging." Wang Xu chuckled and shook his head, "In such a day, Daqin is still invincible, and it seems that it is the destiny of heaven." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Wang Li's breath stagnated, and his eyes stared at Wang Xu anxiously.

"If you don't eat the fruits, the gentleman will get the public opinion, and the villain will strip the house." Wang Xu poured the tea in his hand on the ground, "The great virtue of heaven and earth is born, you see this water, splashed on the ground, will eventually seep into the ground and return to heaven and earth, and people are the same." ”

Wang Li squinted his eyes and looked a little confused: "You mean, if you die sooner or later, you will die?" ”

"So the release of life is the great virtue of heaven and earth." Wang Xu chuckled and waved his hand, "Give these people a way to live, they are not human demons, they are human demons forced by you." ”

"It's not a gentleman's thing for you to stay out of the matter like this, so don't use your envy morality to restrain us mortals." Wang Li shook his head and said coldly, "Not only do I not agree with this, but my father will not agree either, 100,000 Hulu will be left behind for a hundred years, you can take these women and children of Donghu away, don't say anything else." ”

"Not negotiable?" Wang Xu shook his head a little distressedly, and chuckled, "It's really on my own territory, and I even speak a little harder." ”

Wang Li rolled his eyes, "Don't follow me to the famous master's set of finger theory, the soldier only looks at the results, and then gives you 200,000 Hulu, can you control it?" ”

"Do you have to die?" Wang Xu sighed regretfully.

"Huh?" As if sensing something, Wang Li raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why don't you try to convince me again?" ”

"What's the use of telling you, what you say doesn't count." Wang Xu sneered lightly: "When the time comes, I will talk to your father in detail." ”